Educators Curating
Ashley S. Green
Understanding Curation
Are you one of those persons that comes across a great resource and immediately adds it to your favorites list?
If so, I am sure your list goes on and on for days!
I can honestly say, I was favorited queen. Everything went there and once it was there, it drowned in information.
Gone are those days, content curation is here to stay!
There is more to curation than gathering links and placing them on a website. In order to curate content individuals must add their point of view and contextualize information they are putting together by framing it. When I first started curating, I was simply looking for websites. I tried to find quality sources, but curating goes deeper than that. The presentation helped me to understand the difference from hoarding resources and gathering resources with a purpose. Content curating has opened my eyes to the organizational structure that can be used to store information. I can now get rid of all of my favorites lists that are never used.
There are eight steps that can be taken in order to ensure successful curating.
- First educators must find the content sources that are high in quality.
- After the content is selected, it must be filtered by quality and relevance.
- The content must then be contextualized by adding your own perspective.
- Next you will sort, rank and layout the content.
- Decide on a format by using different sources: Scoop.it, Paper.li, Storify, Storiful, etc.
- Share the curated information with an audience!
- Be engaged by hosting the conservation and having live participants.
- Finally, track the engagement of the site.
Storify
The web is able to tell a story with storify. Begin by collecting media. After the media is collected, the site will be ready to publish and share with the world.
Scoop.it!
Paper.li
Paper.li is a site that takes a newspaper and makes it a newsroom. With Paper.li educators and students will have access to several articles and media content. Students and educators will be able to curate content and then publish it with their own online newspaper.
Content Curation
This is a great start for educator's that are interested in content curation.